If you can't figure out how your distro handles network start up scripts, roll your own script using ifconfig and dhcpcd (if you use dhcp). ifconfig works the same on every distro I've tried.
Settlements do not set legal precedent. If the court doesn't rule on it, there is no precedent.
I don't have a good feel for what this particular settlement really means. On the one hand it could just be MS trying to clean off its plate, on the other it could be that they were actually scared of going to court and simply gave Novell what it wanted.
Those of us who voted for the winning candidate also have no right to complain.
Democracy is more involved than "vote once every 4 years and hope for the best".
If you vote for the candidate who wins and you later disagree with his actions, you have every right to give voice to your concerns. In fact, the reason that special interest groups are so successful at lobbying is because they put constant pressure on politicians. We, as concerned citizens, can do the same.
While I have no issue with your math, I will argue that any metric that assigns a greater value to "aquires second jumbo jet" than it does to "begins earning stable income" cannot be meaningful since it asserts that one gets more value from owning a second jumbo jet than it does being able to reliably put food on the table.
In my mind, metric f() can't be meaningful if X requires Y but f(X) >= f(Y). Stated in another fashion, for f() to be meaningful, the law of diminishing returns must apply.
I realize that you're being argumentative, but I'll play along.
Let's say that the amount of improvement in the rich man's quality of life is measured by some metric to be X when he aquires his second jumbo jet.
Let us also say that the amount of improvement in a poorer man's life is Y when he begins to earn a stable paycheck.
Y must be significantly greater than X since the poor man went from having almost nothing to being able to provide some comfort/security for himself (a huge relative improvement) while the rich man when from having every advantage to having every advantage plus one more jumbo jet (a small improvement).
On any scale that can meaningfully display Y, X will appear to be zero. Y is so many magnitudes greater than X that the average calculated using a set containing both X and Y will not be meaningfully different than the average of the same set with X removed.
Therefore, the change in quality of life for the subset of the population that already has access to every advantage can not meaningfully impact the average quality of life of the whole population. If follows that for any metric that can meaningfully measure Y, X will appear to be zero.
If the rich get richer, their quality of life does not improve since they're already at the top of the curve (no qualitative room for improvement). Therefore, if the quality of life of the working class suffers, the average quality of life as a whole must suffer.
Do the math: if the top 1%'s quality of life remains constant and the remaining 99%'s quality of life declines, the average must decline.
We spent a whole week studying the effects of the minimum wage in my collge econ class and I remember being amused that a minimum wage being bad is one of the few things (non-partisan) economists agree on.
It speaks volumes about a candidate when he promises to raise the minimum wage to win more votes when you know he knows (or at least his economic advisors know) that it makes poor econimic policy.
In fact, I use the minimum wage position as a litmus test of sorts when deciding who to vote for. If someone is willing to knowingly hurt the country just to garner a few votes, then that's not someone I can support.
And I guarantee you that if I go to the doctor right now with $random-ailment, they'll push some new, expensive, patented drug on me rather than an older alternative that'd probably work just as well. And they'll do that because the companies give them kick-backs.
I call BS. Can you back up this claim?
The seperation of doctor's offices from pharmacies is designed to make any sort of direct kick-back impossible.
Doctors give out samples of the latest and greatest when they have them, but when prescribing, they generally go over the options with the patients and then prescribe what the patient is comfortable with. Many doctors (I'm married to 4th year med student, so I have some opportunity to mingle with practicing doctors) prefer to prescribe older and better understood drugs than the latest and greatest (assuming there is a real choice).
Most new commercial software is written for Windows - that's simply a fact If you said most Consumer software is written for Windows, I would probably believe you. However, lots of commercial software is written for businesses who still rely on mainframe and unix environments to get their work done.
I'd like to address two of you points that appear to be dated:
It is generally faster than Postgres It is my understanding that this is no longer true in the general case, and is not true in any case once you start hitting the db with a moderate amount of concurrent requests. MySQL simply doesn't scale as well as PostgreSQL.
Postgres has an odd 8k limit per row (probably fixed by now though) Indeed, fixed some time ago.
My understanding is that rather than continue to make incremental improvements to FreeBSD, the DragonFly BSD folks are ripping out entire subsystems and replacing them with new designs that they think will scale better, be easier to maintain, and, ultimately, make it much simpler to make incremental improvements on than the current FreeBSD design.
Take a look at their website. They have some excellent explanations of their goals.
I think what he meant to say is that in order to be portable, FireFox can't use system specific libraries to do any rendering. Actually, no I don't. After reading it again, it looks like he's just wrong.
Isn't the point of the game to play the battles from the movies? If so, it wouldn't make sense to make Hoth a fair fight: the rebels had no chance of winning, they were just trying slow the Empire down to allow the rebel base to be evacuated.
I'd rather play battles true to the movies than have battles adjusted for game balance that are loosely based on the movies.
Always compile with -Wall to turn on all of gcc's warnings. Then, always fix warnings, even when you know it's nothing.
This helps make code clearer and easier to maintain in the long run (and keeps you from missing a legitimate warning amidst a bunch of "safe" warnings).
Did you read the article? He had two computers: an AMD64 and a P4. He didn't even attempt to test ICC on the AMD, only on the P4 and he gave an excellent explanation as to why he didn't bother testing ICC on the AMD.
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If you can't figure out how your distro handles network start up scripts,
roll your own script using ifconfig and dhcpcd (if you use dhcp).
ifconfig works the same on every distro I've tried.
Nothing to it.
Yahoo also blocks gentoo.org.
Pisses me off.
Settlements do not set legal precedent. If the court doesn't rule on it, there
is no precedent.
I don't have a good feel for what this particular settlement really means. On
the one hand it could just be MS trying to clean off its plate, on the other
it could be that they were actually scared of going to court and simply gave
Novell what it wanted.
Just don't know.
Those of us who voted for the winning candidate also have no right to complain.
Democracy is more involved than "vote once every 4 years and hope for the best".
If you vote for the candidate who wins and you later disagree with his actions, you
have every right to give voice to your concerns. In fact, the reason that
special interest groups are so successful at lobbying is because they put
constant pressure on politicians. We, as concerned citizens, can do the same.
Well, if we insist on a non-linear metric, then this:
"If you sabotage the economy, the quality of
life must eventually suffer."
Is most certainly false.
Can you please explain how this is so?
While I have no issue with your math, I will argue that any metric that assigns
a greater value to "aquires second jumbo jet" than it does to "begins earning
stable income" cannot be meaningful since it asserts that one gets more value
from owning a second jumbo jet than it does being able to reliably put food
on the table.
In my mind, metric f() can't be meaningful if X requires Y but f(X) >= f(Y).
Stated in another fashion, for f() to be meaningful, the law of diminishing
returns must apply.
I realize that you're being argumentative, but I'll play along.
Let's say that the amount of improvement in the rich man's quality of life
is measured by some metric to be X when he aquires his second jumbo jet.
Let us also say that the amount of improvement in a poorer man's life is
Y when he begins to earn a stable paycheck.
Y must be significantly greater than X since the poor man went from having
almost nothing to being able to provide some comfort/security for himself
(a huge relative improvement) while the rich man when from having every
advantage to having every advantage plus one more jumbo jet (a small
improvement).
On any scale that can meaningfully display Y, X will appear to be zero.
Y is so many magnitudes greater than X that the average calculated using
a set containing both X and Y will not be meaningfully different than the
average of the same set with X removed.
Therefore, the change in quality of life for the subset of the population that
already has access to every advantage can not meaningfully impact the average
quality of life of the whole population. If follows that for any metric that
can meaningfully measure Y, X will appear to be zero.
If the rich get richer, their quality of life does not improve since they're
already at the top of the curve (no qualitative room for improvement). Therefore, if the quality of life of the working class suffers, the average
quality of life as a whole must suffer.
Do the math: if the top 1%'s quality of life remains constant and the remaining
99%'s quality of life declines, the average must decline.
If you sabotage the economy, the quality of
life must eventually suffer.
We spent a whole week studying the effects of the minimum wage in my collge
econ class and I remember being amused that a minimum wage being bad is one of the
few things (non-partisan) economists agree on.
It speaks volumes about a candidate when he promises to raise the minimum wage
to win more votes when you know he knows (or at least his economic advisors
know) that it makes poor econimic policy.
In fact, I use the minimum wage position as a litmus test of sorts when
deciding who to vote for. If someone is willing to knowingly hurt the country
just to garner a few votes, then that's not someone I can support.
I already finished Doom3 over a month ago.
Remind me again how your having already finished the game will diminish
another's gaming experience
and me without any mod points.
And I guarantee you that if I go to the doctor right now with $random-ailment, they'll push some new, expensive, patented drug on me rather than an older alternative that'd probably work just as well. And they'll do that because the companies give them kick-backs.
I call BS. Can you back up this claim?
The seperation of doctor's offices from pharmacies is designed to make any
sort of direct kick-back impossible.
Doctors give out samples of the latest and greatest when they have them, but
when prescribing, they generally go over the options with the patients and then
prescribe what the patient is comfortable with. Many doctors (I'm
married to 4th year med student, so I have some opportunity to mingle with
practicing doctors) prefer to prescribe older and better understood drugs than
the latest and greatest (assuming there is a real choice).
Most new commercial software is written for Windows - that's simply a fact
If you said most Consumer software is written for Windows, I would
probably believe you. However, lots of commercial software is written for
businesses who still rely on mainframe and unix environments to get their
work done.
I'd like to address two of you points that appear to be dated:
It is generally faster than Postgres
It is my understanding that this is no longer true in the general case, and
is not true in any case once you start hitting the db with a moderate amount
of concurrent requests. MySQL simply doesn't scale as well as PostgreSQL.
Postgres has an odd 8k limit per row (probably fixed by now though)
Indeed, fixed some time ago.
Have you upgraded FF to 1.0PR? There were some reports a while ago that the
Slashdot problems with FF were correct in that release.
If you are using the most recent FF, please check with bugzilla to make sure
that the problem has been reported.
My understanding is that rather than continue to make incremental improvements
to FreeBSD, the DragonFly BSD folks are ripping out entire subsystems and
replacing them with new designs that they think will scale better, be easier
to maintain, and, ultimately, make it much simpler to make incremental
improvements on than the current FreeBSD design.
Take a look at their website. They have some excellent explanations of their
goals.
Properly written and enforced, anti-trust laws help protect the free market by
preventing monopoly powers from interfering with normal market forces.
Because medicines and machines, once developed, are usefull for decades to come, vs. software that lasts maybe 3, 5 years.
This, I believe, is the important difference.
We've turned national politics into a cult of personality
I believe it has been this way ever since big media became involved
(probably since the Nixon vx JFK televised debate).
Can you provide links to additional information about this? Seems like this is
good stuff to know for people who live and work in mixed environments.
I think what he meant to say is that in order to be portable, FireFox can't
use system specific libraries to do any rendering. Actually, no I don't. After
reading it again, it looks like he's just wrong.
Isn't the point of the game to play the battles from the movies?
If so, it wouldn't make sense to make Hoth a fair fight: the rebels
had no chance of winning, they were just trying slow the Empire down
to allow the rebel base to be evacuated.
I'd rather play battles true to the movies than have battles adjusted
for game balance that are loosely based on the movies.
Always compile with -Wall to turn on all of gcc's warnings.
Then, always fix warnings, even when you know it's nothing.
This helps make code clearer and easier to maintain in the long
run (and keeps you from missing a legitimate warning amidst a
bunch of "safe" warnings).
Did you read the article? He had two computers: an AMD64 and a P4.
He didn't even attempt to test ICC on the AMD, only on the P4 and
he gave an excellent explanation as to why he didn't bother testing
ICC on the AMD.